It’s soulful, it’s haunting, it’s jazzy, it’s taunting. It’s absolutely, positively Adele. The British native has released her newest song and video, “Rolling in the Deep.” The video and beat remind me of Florence + The Machine’s “Drumming Song.” While the set is a bit beat up and broken down, Adele’s voice is stronger than ever. Her new album, “21,” will be released February 22nd.
It’s a melody of powerful perfection that will surely prove her worthy of some “Hometown Glory.”
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~Steph |
SUPAKITCH & KORALIE – VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG from elr°y on Vimeo.
Just found this AMAZING video on vimeo and had to share. It captures the creation of a beautiful mural, and adds so much to it by doing so (and I love the choice of music). Just watching them mix the paint makes me miss the long-passed days of art classes where I pretended to be talented. I miss creating! Watch this video and I’m sure you’ll feel the same way. Maybe it’ll even inspire you to make a mural of your own! Of course if it does, make sure you document so we can marvel at the process behind it.
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~Carly |
Time for some real (or should I say, surreal?) stop motion! This video is the second part of a 3-part short Dimensions of Dialogue (1982) by Jan Švankmajer, a Czech surreal artist born in 1934 in Prague. Although his work spans several media, he is best known for his surreal animations and features, which have influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay, and many more. Some of Švankmajer’s trademarks include very exaggerated sounds, the personification of inanimate objects through stop-motion, food as a subject and medium, and nightmarish yet humorous images.
In 1972, the communist authorities banned Švankmajer from making films. He was almost unknown in the West until the early 1980s but is now one of the most celebrated animators in the world. His best known works are the feature films Alice (1988), Faust (1994), Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), Little Otik (2000) and Lunacy (2005).
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~Sarah |
Virgin Airlines has premiered a clever new safety video consisting of fun sketches and quirky animation. Fasten your seat belts, put your seats in the upright position, and prepare for take off. Enjoy the flight, my dears!
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~Steph |
Based on the original poster from 1927 by Fritz Kahn, the video ”Man as Industrial Palace (Der Mensch als Industriepalast)” brings life to the original artwork. Designed and conceptualized by Henning M. Lederer, with sound design by David Indge, this thoughtful animation blends aspects of science, art, and technology. The video explores six cycles within the “human factory”: respiration, blood circulation, digestive circuit, control center, metabolism, and the industrial palace as an entity.
For more information on the project, visit www.industriepalast.com.
“Man as Industrial Palace (Der Mensch als Industriepalast)” by Fritz Kahn, 1927.
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~Sarah |
A jack of many trades, Ethan Law has tried his hand in everything from competitive diving to breakdancing… and he’s pretty damn good. I came across his YouTube channel the other day and had to share this video. I can’t imagine the muscle control required for this kind of movement! You’d have to be pretty brave too, because if something went wrong… yikes broken face perhaps? Smashed knuckles at the very least. Enjoy Ethan Law demonstrating his specialty: the Cyr Wheel (and check out he and his partner’s website here)!
Would you take the advice of strangers? Would you allow them to make every decision for you, from what you eat, to what you do, to where you go? That’s exactly what California-based artist Marc Horowitz is doing. For the month of November, this USC graduate student is putting his life in our hands. Talk about giving us a God complex! By visiting his website, The Advice of Strangers, you can comment on his daily video posts, suggest answers to the questions he poses, and vote on what he should do. The topics range from the mundane to the bizarre (ie: deciding what he will talk about at his appointment with Kate, the psychic).
I know what your thinking. “Silly Mark, didn’t your parents teach you anything about strangers?”
His response would most likely be: “They told me not take candy from them, but they never said anything about advice.”
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~Steph |
In this powerful six minute documentary, Eliot Rausch and Phos Pictures follow the story of Jason Wood, known as Woody to his friends, and his beloved dog Oden. After Oden’s painful struggle with cancer, Woody makes the impossibly difficult decision to put him down. The heart-wrenching story, filmed in the last hours of Oden’s life, explores the themes of friendship, loyalty, love, spirituality, and how Oden helped him understand all of them. Woody, an almost middle-aged man with two sleeves of tattoos, the appearance of a tough skater, and a ten-year prison sentence in his past, admits: “[Oden] showed me, through his example, how to love. And I loved him.”
To learn more about Woody, his life, and his friends three years before “Last Minutes with ODEN” was filmed, check out Eliot Rausch’s and Woody’s own “5 Hours with Woody”.
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~Sarah |
Hey Guys and Gals!
As promised, here’s the art project we’ve been working on! If you couldn’t tell from the photos in our last update, things got pretty messy. We got about 10 people together, and made a big Jackson Pollock on a piece of plywood. I find it pretty funny that a lot of people who see it immediately ask, “Hey, how did you do that?”, so in response to the overwhelming demand, we’ve made a tongue-in-cheek instructional video on how to make a Jackson Pollock of your own. Enjoy! (P.S. Watch it in HD if your internet is fast enough!)
In addition, being the time-lapse/stop-motion fanatics that we are, we also put together a time-lapse of the whole project, check it out:
And finally, here’s a link to the rest of the great photos that Sarah and Ian took!
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~Nick |
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~Sydni |
The print was designed by Anthony Burrill you can see his online portfolio and projects here.
Essentially the project, by Happiness Brussels, was to make prints using the oil from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The prints came out great, they did their part in the cleaning of the beaches in Louisiana, and the profits from the 200 prints made are going to the non-profit organization “Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana”
You can purchase the posters for a great cause here!
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~Gary |
